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...Sunday midday, clear and sunny. Many a citizen was idly listening to the radio when the flash came that the Japanese had attacked Hawaii. In Topeka they were listening to The Spirit of '41 and napping on their sofas after dinner. In San Francisco, where it was not quite noon, they were listening to the news, Philharmonic and Strings in Swingtime. In Portland, Maine, where it was cold but still sunny, they were lining up for the movies...
...Chiang Kai-shek was surprised, it was a flash reflex. He knew the Japanese too well for shock. The blast of bombs in Pearl Harbor was the amplified echo of an explosion along a Manchurian railway ten years ago. Since that day Chiang's Government, like some dusty, neglected Cassandra, had warned the Western Powers time & again that some day the Japanese Army would turn on them as it had on China...
...with spears, gigs, pike poles, BB guns, .22s, and even with stones. Sometimes there would be a wounded fish trapped in some shallow pool. Sometimes you could see a salmon leap a falls, or jump the spillway of a lumber company's dam. There would be a dark flash barely under the water, an explosion of water as the fish broke into the air, perhaps 15 feet, and then, if it fell back, a moment when it lay stunned before the current carried it back downstream...
With the season coming to a close today and tomorrow, House players will have a chance to flash their ability for all-House team honors. Director of Intramural Athletics, Coach "Sam" Samborski, will make the final selections of the all-House team, based upon his own judgement of the players ability, the opinions of the House coaches, and the advice of the officials who supervise the games. Publication of the all-House team will appear in the CRIMSON next Tuesday after the final selections Monday afternoon...
...invaders stormed and took Fort Tilden (near Coney Island), the Information Center moved with precision and dispatch. Its instructions guided the operations of 250 pursuit ships, batteries of 800,000,000-candle-power searchlights, five anti-aircraft regiments. Although at first as much as six minutes elapsed between a flash and the allocation of a disc, the Center soon got its timing close to the 40 seconds which the Army thinks adequate. The Army had high praise for the Bell System which arranged the location of observation posts. Only fault some Army officers had to find with the setup...